National Network for Educational Renewal

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The authors of this blog are active members of a scholarly group sponsored by the National Network for Educational Renewal. Working as a task force, we've been charged with finding ways to encourage policymakers, educators, and citizens to work together to determine the public, democratic purposes for schooling and to also reflect about how bureaucratic structures within the enterprise of schooling impact efforts to achieve these democratic purposes. This blog will provide a variety of tools for facilitating this important work.

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January 7, 2010

A new year. New beginnings. In a fit of resolution, I set about cleaning my office. It was slow going. In part, the delay was a very good thing. I enjoyed exploring my collection of books. Many reflect my long standing interest in the purposes for schools. I still remember, with astonishing acuity, the origin; on an October day in 1980 a struggling 7th grade boy, "Tony," demanded an explanation for why he had to go to school. My responses were weak and uncertain; as an individual who has always loved school, I had never seriously considered the possibility that school was not a good place for everyone. John Goodlad's answer, presented in 1979 in the book What Schools are For, was one of the first coherent explanations that I encountered. I sometimes ponder if I could do a better job of responding to Tony.

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